Les Sables-d’Olonne
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Les Sables-d’Olonne is a seaside town on France’s Atlantic coast, known for its sandy beaches, fishing port, and as the starting point of the Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Sables-d’Olonne canonical | 12 |
| Les Sables-d’Olonne, Vendée, France | 2 |
| Port de pêche des Sables-d’Olonne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5949177 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Sables-d’Olonne Context triple: [Worthing, hasTwinTown, Les Sables-d’Olonne]
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A.
Luçon
Luçon is a historic town in western France, known as a former episcopal seat and for its notable cathedral and religious heritage.
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B.
Le Moule
Le Moule is a coastal commune and former sugar port on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, known for its surfing beaches and colonial-era heritage.
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C.
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a historic walled port city in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage, privateering past, and dramatic coastal setting on the English Channel.
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D.
Valognes
Valognes is a historic town in northwestern France known for its elegant 17th- and 18th-century mansions and its location on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy.
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E.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Sables-d’Olonne Target entity description: Les Sables-d’Olonne is a seaside town on France’s Atlantic coast, known for its sandy beaches, fishing port, and as the starting point of the Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race.
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A.
Luçon
Luçon is a historic town in western France, known as a former episcopal seat and for its notable cathedral and religious heritage.
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B.
Le Moule
Le Moule is a coastal commune and former sugar port on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, known for its surfing beaches and colonial-era heritage.
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C.
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a historic walled port city in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage, privateering past, and dramatic coastal setting on the English Channel.
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D.
Valognes
Valognes is a historic town in northwestern France known for its elegant 17th- and 18th-century mansions and its location on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy.
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E.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commune
ⓘ
seaside town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | subprefecture of Vendée ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coastType | sandy coast ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demography | population over 40,000 inhabitants (approximate) ⓘ |
| departmentCapitalOf | Vendée ⓘ |
| hasBeach | Grande Plage des Sables-d’Olonne ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
dunes
ⓘ
salt marshes ⓘ seafront promenade ⓘ |
| hasHarbor |
fishing harbor
ⓘ
pleasure harbor ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port Olona
ⓘ
Port de pêche des Sables-d’Olonne ⓘ
linked to:
Les Sables-d’Olonne
|
| hasRailConnectionTo |
La Roche-sur-Yon
ⓘ
Nantes ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Goslar
ⓘ
Jersey (St Helier-related partnerships) ⓘ
linked to:
Jersey
Sliema ⓘ Worthing ⓘ Zamora ⓘ |
| hostsEvent |
Vendée Globe
ⓘ
linked to:
Vendée Globe yacht race
|
| knownFor |
Vendée Globe yacht race
ⓘ
fishing port ⓘ marina ⓘ sandy beaches ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pays de la Loire region
ⓘ
linked to:
Pays de la Loire
Vendée department ⓘ western France ⓘ
linked to:
Western France
|
| locatedNear | Île d’Yeu (by sea routes) ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Bay of Biscay ⓘ |
| partOf | historic province of Poitou ⓘ |
| postalCode | 85100 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ yachting ⓘ |
| regionCapitalOf |
Arrondissement des Sables-d’Olonne
ⓘ
linked to:
arrondissement of Les Sables-d’Olonne
|
| role | starting point of the Vendée Globe ⓘ |
| sport | sailing ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| tourismType | seaside tourism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Les Sables-d’Olonne Description of subject: Les Sables-d’Olonne is a seaside town on France’s Atlantic coast, known for its sandy beaches, fishing port, and as the starting point of the Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vendée department
subject linked to:
Vendée department
subject linked to:
Vendée department
subject linked to:
Vendee
subject linked to:
Vendée Globe yacht race
linked to: Les Sables-d’Olonne
subject linked to:
Vendée Globe yacht race
linked to: Les Sables-d’Olonne
linked to: Les Sables-d’Olonne